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  Priest Charged over Child Offence

BBC News [United Kingdom]
February 16, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6368683.stm

A parish priest has been charged with the attempted rape of a child.

Father John Herve, vicar at St Agatha's church in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, has also been charged with five counts of indecent assault on a person under 14.

He also faces a charge of indecent assault on a person under 16. The charges relate to incidents going back to the 1990s.

Fr Herve, a Church of England priest, will appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 22 February.

 
 

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